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Application am; July es, 1921, Serial Io. naua- To all whom may concern."

- Be it known that I, Aman'r Marsm, a citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Mount Vernon, county of.

Westchester, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovee,-. of which the following'is a specification.

The hitherto used system of stocking shoes in stores has beenby placing the shoes of each pair in reversed position opposite one another'in a rectangular box of a standardsize and storing: such boxes on stationagy horizontal shelves built along the walls 0 been found unsatisfactory for many masons. Not only do the shelves and boxes lend the store a monotonous, unsightly appearance,

but they render the walls useless for other displays. This disadvanta is more particularly felt in stores that 0' not specialize in shoes but carry some as a side line.-

A more serious disadvantage, however, offered by suchsystem is the loss of a great amount of labor and time entailed'in fitting a. customer, as the clerk often has to run from one end of the store to the other and climb ladders up and down to find a pair to suit his customer.

My invention has for its object to obviate these disadvantages. I have found that by packing the shoes of each pair vertically above one another to fit in tapered pockets or compartments formed in revoluble cases a greater number of pairs of shoes can be stored in a given space, the handling of the shoes by'the clerks be considerably facili tatedand that such cases can be convenor intermedia betweenthe walls to be easily and readily accessible from two sides:

leaving the 'walls free'for other display.

My invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of fixtures as will be hereinafter more fully described and defined in the appended claim.

In the accompanym drawing, Fig. 1 is a sectional top plan 0 in novel shoe fixture; Fig. 2 a sectional e ovation thereof;

Fig. 3 a part of the fixture operating device;

Fig. 4 a side elevation of the latter' Fig. '5

Fig. 6 a side. view thereof.

In the drawing 10 denote vertical spindles rotatively supported in suitable bear-' mgs 11 provided on a base or bases 12.

may eac .able an the store. Such system, however, has.

ged in the middle of the'store.

13 denote cylindrical bodies mounted on said spindles to revolve with thelatter.

arranged in close proximity, almost tangentially, to one another with their axes laying in a single vertical plane. The shelves 14 be provided on their upper and lower surfaces with a plurality of radial grooves 14 14 in range with one another and equidistantly distributed on said surfaces. These ves serve for the removp rt 0 partitions 15 which are to divide t 'e spaces between the superposed shelves into a plurality of inwardly ta ing com artments- 16. The lowermost elf 14 and e top 14' may have radial only on one of their surfaces as at 14 and (5 14. The partitions 15 can be ad'usted in the ves to enlarge or reduce t e width of t e compartments 16 according to requirement. l

. The shoes may be stored in these compartments in pairs by placing the shoes in each compartment one above the other so that their soles and heels will be even with one another and facing one side of the comartment, with the u olded upon itself. will convenientl .fit in the tapered compartments. of placing the shoes directly into the compartments, they may be packed in boxes 17 made of card board and given a laterally'ta red shape, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. tovaryinsizeacco tosizeofshoes the; are to contain. The xes are adapted to t in the compartments 16.

The revoluble fixtures arranged in 'proximity to one another as shown, may beenclosed by stationary parts, such as frames or show cases '18, or the like, so that only a single vertical row of compartments 16' of each fixture willbe exposed to view or be accessible. The show cases 18 may be givensuch shape as to. fitin the free aces tween adjo' fixtures, and aroun the outer parts of e end; fixtures as shown in Fi 1 and may be advantageously connec in any suitable manner on top and part of each shoe e shoes thus stored a 0. boxes may be made bottom of one another to form a singgla into the pert nent or a single door for the entire opening 20 may be suitabli hinged to the frames or show cases, as s own in Fi 2. To facilitate the turning of the revo uble o fixture in order to allow access to the different compartments thereof, a suitable operatin mechanism may be provided on each side 0 a fixture. In the present example a edal mechanism is used. The same com- 20 .The fixture, as already stated, can be placed at any convenient place to be accessible from two sides. 7 It is, of course understood, that the structure may be modified in various ways with- I out departing h-om the spirit of my invenprises a ratchet wheel 22 fixed on the lower tion; I, therefore, do not wish to confine an self to the details described and shown.

at I claim and desire to secure by t-- ters Patent is:- A fixture for shoes or the like, comprising a plurality of revoluble cylindrical units arranged almost'ta entially relative to one another, each form with adjustable radial compartments, show cases the innerwalls of which are substantially conoentric to the. outer part of a unit and serve as corner pieces and intermediate show cases the inner walls of which are curved to be concentric to the outer parts of two adjoining units, said show cases being all joined to form a 40 single casing, the difier'ent show cases being in front and back P Perated a space equal to the width of the outer end oi a compartment to permit access to said oompartment and doorsfor closingsaid spaces. 45

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